different between debility vs impairment
debility
English
Etymology
From Middle English debylite, from Old French debilité (French débilité), from Latin d?bilit?s (“weakness”), from d?bilis (“weak”), from d?- + habilis (“able”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??b?l?ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
debility (countable and uncountable, plural debilities)
- A state of physical or mental weakness.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
- […]
- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
Related terms
- debile
- debilitate
- debilitation
Translations
Further reading
- debility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debility in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
debility From the web:
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impairment
English
Alternative forms
- empairment (rare)
Etymology
impair +? -ment
Noun
impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)
- The result of being impaired
- A deterioration or weakening
- A disability or handicap
- an inefficient part or factor.
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
Translations
impairment From the web:
- what impairment means
- what impairments qualify for disability
- what impairment occurs in dysphagia
- what impairment loss means
- what is impairment definition
- what do impairment mean
- what does impairment mean
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